Services & Preachers this Sunday

  • Said Eucharist (Rite I) is celebrated at 8am .
  • Choral Eucharist (Rite II) with Choir and Sunday School is celebrated at 10am. Mai Collins will be Baptized during the 10am service. Our Celebrant and Preacher for the morning services is the Rev. Matthew Hoxsie Mead, Rector. Nursery care is offered every Sunday at 10am.
  • Evensong (Rite I) will be offered at 5pm. Our preacher for Evensong is the Rev. Kino Vitet, Rector of Saint Mark's Church, Brooklyn.
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 Fellowship

  • Coffee hour or refreshments follows every service. 
  • Meet this months Artist, Mariangela de Carvalho, in Hoag Hall from 11am-1pm.
  • A Festive Reception with information about the Saint Michael's Conference will follow Evensong.

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About Michaelmas

Michaelmas (rhymes with “nickel” and pronounced like “Christmas”) is the traditional English name for the feast day of Saint Michael and All Angels, observed on September 29.  This date was selected because it is the anniversary of the dedication of the 6th Century Church of Saint Michael and All Angels in Rome. In England and in some schools elsewhere, Michaelmas is one of the quarter days, traditionally marked by the election of magistrates, the beginning of the legal and university terms, and the collection of quarterly rents.  

About Evensong & Our Guest Preacher at 5pm

Tonight we offer a sung service of Evening Prayer called Evensong. Evensong has been offered for nearly 600 years in Anglican and Episcopal cathedrals, city churches, and country parishes around the world. The format for Anglican Evensong can be traced directly to the first Book of Common Prayer and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer who crafted robust services of Morning Prayer (Matins) and Evening Prayer (Evensong) from the smaller monastic offices that had been in use before the Reformation. Anglican Evensong is often the last major service on a Sunday and is said or sung by and for the people. Evensong often includes a sermon, familiar evening hymns, and, when possible, a choir. Tonight’s service is Rite I from the Book of Common Prayer 1979. 

Tonight we welcome as our preacher the Reverend Kino Germaine Lockheart Vitet, Rector of Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, New York. He was born in Vieux-Fort, Saint Lucia, West Indies, and raised in St. Lucia and Brooklyn, N.Y. He received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 1999 from Lehigh University; a M.Sc. in City Design and Social Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2000, and an M.A. in Economics from Fordham University in 2002.  He worked for many years at the Port Authority of NY & NJ in Economics, Infrastructure and Planning before receiving a M. Div. degree from Yale University in 2011, and a Diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School that same year.  He was ordained to the priesthood on February 2, 2012. He served as Priest-in-Charge at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Queens Village from 2012 to 2015 and as as Rector of Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in Brooklyn since 2015. We also welcome members of the Saint Michael’s Conference for high school and college age youth. Father Mead and Father Vitet served as faculty members at this summer’s Conference.

Music & Lectionary Notes for the 10am Choral Eucharist

  • The Parish Choir sings at 10am.
  • Prelude: Baptismal Suite by Justin Bischof
  • Procession Hymn: 282, Christ the Fair Glory of the holy angels, Caelites plaudant
  • Gloria in excelsis: S280, Gloria by Robert Powell
  • Old Testament: Genesis 28:10-17
  • Psalm 103:19-22: Dominus in cælo paravit,  Anglican chant by Stephen Darlington
  • New Testament: Revelation 12:7-12
  • Sequence Hymn: 625, Ye Holy Angels Bright, Darwall’s 148th
  • Gospel: John 1:47-51
  • Hymn following the Baptism: 645, The King of love my shepherd is, St. Columba 
  • Offertory Anthem: Come Down, O Love Divine by William Henry Harris 1883-1973
  • Offertory Doxology: Festive tune, Laßt uns erfreuen
  • Sanctus & Benedictus: S125 by Richard Proulx
  • Agnus Dei: S164 by Franz Schubert arranged by Richard Proulx
  • Communion Hymn: 711, Seek ye first the kingdom of God, Seek Ye First
  • Communion Anthem: O For A Closer Walk by Charles Villier Stanford 1852-1924
  • Post-Communion Hymn: 410, Praise my soul, the King of heaven, Lauda anima
  • Processional Postlude:  Improvisation on Michael by Bischof

Music & Lectionary for the 5pm Evensong

  • Processional Prelude: Improvisation 
  • Phos hilaron: Glad Light of Worship, Caelites plaudant
  • Psalms 24 & 150 (said responsively)
  • Old Testament: 2 Kings 6:8-17
  • Magnificat: 438, Tell out my soul, Woodlands
  • New Testament: Mark 13:21-27
  • Canticle Hymn: L-226, Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord, Battlehymn of the Republic
  • Office Hymn: 324, Let all mortal flesh keep silence, Picardy
  • Offering Hymn: 618, Ye watchers and ye holy ones, Lasst uns erfreuen
  • Processional Voluntary: 2nd Improvisation on Michael by Bischof
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